Iron



April 7, 1925. 1 532538 H. S. SHAW IRON Filed Feb. 1, 1923 L .59 IN ENTOR:

" ATTORNEY? Patented Apr. 7, 1925.

STATES PATENT OFFCE.

IRON.

Application filed February 1, 1923. Serial No. 616,263.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY S. SHAW, a citizen of the United States, residing at Atlantic City, county of Atlantic, State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Iron, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention comprehends a novel construction and arrangement of an iron wherein a portion of the ironing surface is formed by one or more rolls, provision being made for effecting the proper heating of the ironing surface either internally or externally of the rolls or both, and provi sion being also made for utilizing the heat of the iron to generate steam, which can be discharged upon the article which is being pressed or ironed, such discharge being under the control of the operator.

It further comprehends a novel construction and arrangement of an iron, wherein the forward portion and point of the iron is substantially flat or with slight curvature at the point, and in rear of such portion a freely rotatable ironing roll is mounted.

. Itfurther comprehends other novel features of construction and advantage all as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

For the purpose of illustrating my invention, I have shown in the accompanying drawings embodiments thereof which are at present preferred by me, since these embodiments will be found in practice to give satisfactory and reliable results. It is, however, to be understood that the various instrumentalities of which my invention consists can be variously arranged and organized and'that my invention is not limited to the precise arrangement and organization of these instrumentalities as herein shown and described.

Figure 1 represents, in perspective, .an iron embodying my invention.

Figure 2.1epresents a section on line 2-2 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 represents a section on line 3-3 of Figure 2.

Figure 4 represents a section on line 4-4 of Figure 2.

Figure 5 represents a sectional plan view of another embodiment of my invention.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Referring to the drawings.

1 designates an iron, embodying my invention. The iron is formed of an upper casing section 2 and a lower casing section 3. The rear portion of the upper casing section 2 is provided with an inturned lug 4 which is received in arecess 5 in the bottom casing section 3. The bottom casing section 3 is provided with a steam discharge pipe 6 which is secured by means of a coupling 7 with a fitting 8 carried by the upper casing section 2 and communicating with the upper 'portion of the chamber 9 in which water is adapted to be introduced through the filling opening 10 which is normally closed by the plug 11. The fitting 8 is provided with a valve 12, the stem of which is connected to a manuallyactuated lever 13 fulcrumed in the bracket 14 and provided with a spring 15, the tendency of which is to normally hold the valve 12 in its closed position. The top of the ca sing section 2 is preferably provided with a sheet of heat insulating material 14. The handle 16 is provided with a grasping portion and is cut away, as indicated at 17, inorder that the valve lever 13 V will pass theret-hrough, the latter having the finger piece 18 which is accessible to the fingers of the operator when the latter is grasping the handle 16.

The lower casing section 3 is in the form of a band having its bottom portion partly closed by the front ironing surface 19 and the rear ironing surface 20 which surfaces are in the form of plates secured to the lower casing section 3 in any desired manner, for example, by spot welding. These plates form between them an opening 21 through which projects an ironing roll 22 which is freely rotatable on a burner pipe 23 having the ports 24 through which the fuel coming from the inlet hose 25 may pass. This inlet hose 25 is provided with a manually controlled valve 26 and leads to an intake manifold 27 which communicates with the burner pipe 23, and is provided with an air valve 28 and a manually controlled valve 29. A burner pipe 30 is for the purpose of heating the liquid in, the chamber 9 also leads from the manifold 27 and is provided with a controlling valve 31 adapted to be manually controlled. The burner pipe 30 is in proximity to the forward portion of the upper casing section 2 which is stepped down in proximity to such burner pipe 30, as indicated in Figure 2.

The bottom of the casing section 2 may if desired be upwardly deflected, as at 32, in order that a larger roll 22 can be employed than could otherwise be accommodated. The

ironing roll 22 is provided with the air inlet ports 33, see Figure 4, and side walls of the casing are provided with the ports 34 and one of them with an elongated slot 35, the casing section 2 having the downwardly deflected flange 36 above the slot 35 and extending below it in order to deflect the heat downwardly.

The ironing roll is preferably internally heated but if desired may be externally heated and one or more ironing rolls may be employed. In Figure 5, I have shown the iron as being provided with a plurality of ironing rolls 37 freely rotatable on their burner pipes 38, which latter communlcate with a fuel intake manifold 39. pipes 40 are also provided communicating with the intake manifold and have ports to cause the flame to impinge against the ironing surface of the ironing rolls, so that these ironing rolls can be internally and externally heated, or both of these methods of heating the rolls can be employed. The

burner pipes 38 and 40 have their respective controlling valves 41 and air valves 42.

It will be understood that in this form of my invention the ironing surface of the iron is formed by the ironing rolls 37 and the plate 43.

In the form seen in Figures 1 to 4 inclusive, the front plate 19 has its forward portion deflected upwardly and inwardly to form a chamber 44 having the forwardly and downwardly deflected ports 45 through which the steam will pass when the valve 12 is open to cause it to impinge against the article which is being pressed. It will be seen that steam passing from the ports will discharge in advance of the iron on the article which is being ironed.

I also preferably provide a relief valve 46 communicating with the steam contain ing portion of the chamber 9 so that excessive steam pressure will not be retained within the iron.

In the use of aniron embodying my invention the chamber 9 is partly filled with water and the burners are ignited. If it is desired to utilize the steam,-the operator draws up a finger on the valve lever 18, thereby opening the valve 12, and the steam will be discharged upon the garment which is being pressed or ironed through the steam discharge ports 45.

In the form shown in F1 it will be apparent that one can employ for the ironing or pressing operation only the Burner gures 1, 2 and 4,"

roller 22, or the iron can be tilted to bring the heel of the iron formed by the plate 20 or the toe of the iron formed by the plate 19 into operation. The same holds true of the embodiment shown in Figure 5.

It will be understood that the burner 30 can be dispensed with if desired, although I preferably employ it in practice.

It will be apparent that if desire-d the fuel can be cut oif from the burner pipe 23, and this is preferably done when the clothes are being steamed, as the burner pipe will sulficiently heat the ironing roll 22 at such time.

It will be apparent that I have devised a new and useful iron which embodies the features of advantage enumerated as desirable in the statement of the invention and the above description, and while I have, in the present instance, shown and described embodiments thereof which will give in practice satisfactory and reliable results, it is to be understood that these embodiments are susceptible of modification in various particulars without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim asnew and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. In an iron, a casing having a liquid receiving chamber and having a portion of its bottom ironing surface formed by a substantially plane surface and another portion formed by a rotatably mounted roll, means within said casing to effect the internal heating ofthe ironing surfaces and the liquid chamber, and a valve controlled steam discharge communicating with said chamber.

2. An iron comprising a casing having a water receiving chamber and a manually controlled steam discharge pipe leading from said chamber, said casing having a steam receiving chamber communicating with said pipe and provided with a discharge aperture, a grasping handle carried by said casing, a rotatably mounted roll forming a portion of the ironing surface, a source of heat within said casing to heat the water in said Water receiving chamber, and a source of heat to effect the internal heating of said rotatably mounted roll.

3. An iron of the character described, comprising. an upper and a lower section, said lower section'having a chamber the upper end of which is closed by the bottom of said upper section, a rotatably mounted roll in said chamber and extending through the bottom of said lower section to form an ironing surface, -means to internally heat said roll, an independent means to heat said chamber, and means to secure said sections in assembled condition.

,4. An iron comprising a casing consisting of an upper and a lowersection, means to secure said sections together, a gas mani fold carried by said lower section, a heat ing exhaust openings disposed below said deflector located above said manifold, a deflector.

burner extending into said lower section and communicating with said manifold, and an HARRY S. SHAW. ironing roll rotatably mounted in said lower Witnesses:

section and having a burner communicating H. S. FAIRBANKS,

with said manifold, said lower section hav- C. D. MCVAY. 

